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Piccolo Family Charitable Foundationinc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE PINE BANKS PARK FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| MELROSE HIGH SCHOOL PERMANENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $20,000 |
| MYSTIC VALLEY ELDER SERVICES INC | $10,000 |
| MALDEN OVERCOMING ADDICTION | $6,500 |
| TAILORED FOR SUCCESS | $6,500 |
| MYSTIC RIVER RUGBY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CITY OF MELROSE | $5,000 |
| MALDEN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| MYSTIC VALLEY REGIONAL CHARTER SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| MIAMI UNIVERSITY | $4,000 |
| SKATING CLUB OF BOSTON | $3,000 |
| THE FITCH HOME INC | $2,500 |
| COMMUNITY FAMILY INC | $2,500 |
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT | $2,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $187k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
29 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- TPTHE PINE BANKS PARK FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $247k · revenue +16%
- MVMYSTIC VALLEY AGING SERVICES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $69k · revenue +105%
- TCTHE COMMUNITY FAMILY INC7× · 2017–2024 · $57k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- TFTHE FRIENDS OF THE MELROSE PUBLIC LIBRARY INCone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -66%
NORTHEAST ARC INCone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue -62%- FOFRIENDS OF NORTHSHORE EDUCATIONone grant, 2022 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…
Education and Research
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…
Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Emmanuel college is a coed, residential catholic liberal arts and sciences college with 2,112 undergraduate and graduate students.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mystic Valley Aging Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Fitch Home Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 53 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE PINE BANKS PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MELROSE HIGH SCHOOL PERMANENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds MYSTIC VALLEY AGING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FAMILY INC ↗
- Who funds Tailored For Success Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FITCH HOME INC ↗
- Who funds ALEX'S TEAM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MALDEN OVERCOMING ADDICTION INC ↗
- Who funds MYSTIC RIVER RUGBY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF THE MELROSE PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST ARC INC ↗
- Who funds THE SKATING CLUB OF BOSTON ↗
- Who funds JUDGE BAKER CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds CLASS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COOKS INC ↗
- Who funds MELROSE ALLIANCE AGAINST VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds LEAP for Education Inc ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds MARIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Friends of Northshore Education Consortium ↗
- Who funds LIAM NATION INC ↗
- Who funds SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Mission of Deeds Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Adelaide Breed Bayrd Foundation · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Melrose Cooperative Bank Foundation · People's United Community Foundation of Eastern Massachusetts Inc · Rockland Trust - East Boston Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Piccolo Family Charitable Foundationinc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Portal to Hope — 81% of income from government
- Malden Overcoming Addiction Inc — 81% of income from government
- Northeast Arc Inc — 73% of income from government
- The Community Family Inc — 41% of income from government
- Judge Baker Children's Center — 29% of income from government
- Melrose Alliance Against Violence Inc — 19% of income from government
- Leap for Education Inc — 9% of income from government
- The Fitch Home Inc — 9% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Bread of Life Inc — 6% of income from government
- Suffolk University — 1% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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